The Chilton Socks are stylish and polished knit socks with a fold-over ruffle and a clean cabled design throughout the foot. They look beautiful styled with a variety of shoes including loafers, booties, and fun heels. Construction-wise, the socks are knit from the top down starting with the ruffle, which is knit alongside a short stockinette stitch section that is then folded over for a folded cuff. The sock employs a traditional heel flap and gusset as well as an anatomical toe for a better fit. Stay chic all year round with the Chilton Socks!

Sizes
1 (2, 3) to fit foot circumference of 7 (8, 9) in [18, (20, 23) cm]. Length is adjustable for both the leg and foot of the sock depending on preference and foot size.

Yarn
260 (350, 440) yards [240 (320, 400) meters] of fingering-weight yarn optionally held together with the same amount of lace-weight mohair yarn. You will need more yarn if you are planning to make a longer sock (either in the leg or foot), although these yardages already have an extra 15% as buffer.

The pictured sample was knit in a size 2 and used less than 1 skein of Madelinetosh Twist Light (75% merino wool, 25% nylon/polyamide, 473yd/433m per 118g skein) in the colorway Natural held together with less than 2 skeins of Knitting for Olive Soft Silk Mohair (70% mohair, 30% silk, 246yd/225m per 25g skein) in the colorway Cloud.

Note: You can knit this pattern with only a fingering-weight yarn and no mohair strand as long as you achieve gauge (several test knitters did so with good results). However, the only thing I want to note is that I’ve found white fingering-weight yarn looks a bit holey without the extra strand of mohair held alongside it.

Gauge
32 sts and 44 rows in stockinette stitch to 4” [10 cm] on US 1.5 [2.5mm] needles or needles needed to obtain gauge, after blocking.

Needles & Notions

• US 1.5 [2.5 mm] circular needles for working the sock, or whatever size needles are needed to achieve gauge as mentioned above
• Recommended cable length will vary depending on your preferred method for working in a small circumference (typically either 9” circulars, DPNs, or a longer length circular needle for magic loop).
• Note: You may need a longer length circular needle to work the ruffle, which requires casting on a large number of stitches and decreasing rapidly.
• Cable needle
• Removable stitch markers
• Tapestry needle

Note on knitting in the round: This pattern is not too prescriptive about how to knit socks in the round since I know many sock knitters have their own preferences between knitting on DPNs, magic loop, 9” circulars, or other techniques. However, the pattern is written sometimes referring to needle 1 and needle 2 (N1 and N2) which is most intuitive for magic loop. You can also use stitch markers to denote N1 and N2 if you are using a different technique of working in the round.

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